Tri-state business [Telegraph-Herald (Dubuque, IA)]

The company's board of directors recently approved a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share payable on March 7 to stockholders of record at the close of business on Feb. 21. There were 18,399,156 common shares outstanding listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as of Dec. 31, 2013.

Heartland was founded in 1981 and was initially organized from Dubuque Bank & Trust. The company now has 80 banking locations in 11 states.